World Happenrids Briefly Told
July colonial loans to the British treasury totalled 763 022 pounds. Keane announces sugar rations of one pound per person weekly. Australia aims to boost vegetable production under a nationwide scheme. Wooden shoes rise in Johannesburg to ease boot shortages. Dutch contributions to RAF include 9 fighters and 32 bombers. U S war production board creates Canadian division in Ottawa. Joe Tucker named director. Marshal Petain denounces backward Frenchmen at a Vichy ceremony. BBC reports 60 000 enemy territory photos received. a larger handling unit was needed.
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A. V. Keane
Australia
U.S. War Production Board
Joe Tucker
Ottawa
Plan for Four Million Postwar British Homes
Britain plans to build four million peacetime houses after the war. The Ministry of Health will shape the homes by the ideas gathered from the public, aiming to reflect the preferences of future residents. Builders and buyers may also consider accompanying cars or tires when these plans become available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Ministry of Health
Shirtfrock Brat Pattern 4123 Ad Approved by Anne Adams
Anne Adams Pattern 4123 offers a softer look with a wide pointed collar and toned bodice. Available in misses and women sizes 14 through 42, size 16 uses 35 inches of yardage. Send 20 cents and write name address size and pattern number to Anne Adams Pattern Dept Winnipeg Newspaper Union.
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Anne Adams
Amart
Winnipeg Newspaper Union
McDermot Ave
Winnipeg
Man
Grass growth project uncovers hidden concrete floor at Camp Robinson
Workers at Camp Robinson in Arkansas discovered a concrete floor beneath the surface while attempting to grow grass on the Barre camp lot. The tank was abandoned and the area was dug up revealing an odd phower room.
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Camp Robinson
Arkanaes
Barre
Bao Nae
Cannon To Be Scrapped In New York Parks
Mayor Fiorello La Guardia announced that old cannons guns and tanks in New York parks will be gathered for scrap metal to aid wartime blast furnaces. He urged mayors nationwide to surrender such historic weapons from city parks and village greens, a request coordinated with Army Under Secretary Robert P. Patterson and General Brehon Somervell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
F. la Guardia
Robert P. Patterson
Brehon B. Somervill
Army Services of Supply
Selected Recipes Brown Gems and Cream Scones
A vintage recipe collection outlines Brown Gems muffins with mazola corn syrup spices and a cream scone with flour baking powder shortening eggs and corn syrup. Directions include mixing boiling syrup, then combining dry and wet ingredients and baking times for muffins and scones.
Flying Doctors join the R A F to study airman strain
Flying doctors and medical officers, fully trained as pilots for operational duties, are being introduced into the Royal Air Force to enable close study of flying strain and other diseases peculiar to airmen. Jeanne Anderson of London Ontario found 51 four leaf clovers, and also collected three five leaf and two six leaf clovers in a backyard search for luck.
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R.A.F
Jeanne Anderson
London
Ont
One Big Problem How To Make Good Apple Sauce Without Sugar
The Farmers Advocate notes Canada faces an apple sauce dilemma as Duchess apples fail to sell due to sugar rationing. It argues true apple sauce should be sweetened only with sugar and warns that alternatives harm flavor and market demand. It also suggests overall apple consumption may be down this season.
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Canada
Nature
Duchess
Sunday School Lesson on Joseph and Dreams in Genesis
The lesson covers Genesis 37 and 39 41 with a focus on Jacob's favoritism Joseph's dreams and journey to Egypt. It notes Joseph's brothers plotting his murder then selling him to Ishmaelite merchants and Potiphar along with background on Dothan route and Potiphar's status in Egypt.
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Corinthians
Jacob
Joseph
James
Reuben
Egypt
Dothan
Gilead
Plain of
Sharon
Judah
Potiphar
Pharaoh
Memphis
Dynamic Language Frames RAF Attacks in Western France
The New York Times notes American English as dynamic, especially newspaper English, and discusses a routine Allied air raid over Nazi targets in Western France. It describes massed formations and the blitz against factories and airdromes in a standard wartime reporting voice.
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New York Times
R.A.F
France
Health league film teaches workers to take care of themselves
Health Magazine features Take Care Of Yourself a slide film in industrial health education. A doctor and nurse discuss rest food recreation and exercise with Jim a factory worker who indulges then seeks advice to stay on the job. Plant officials can contact the Health League of Canada at 111 Avenue Road Toronto for details.
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Health
Health League of Canada
Grant
Great Wall of
China
Jim
Canada
111 Avenue Road
Toronto
Ontario
Lesson from war history underscoring peace without vengeance
The article asserts that Germans must learn through war in their own land that lasting peace requires nations to fear the sword. It notes war teaches consequences and argues that no permanent peace exists without this reckoning, then adds a claim about Chinese inventions including milk porcelain tea printing and gunpowder.
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Johannesburg
Netherlands
RAF
Marshal Petain
Caesar
BBC
Admiralty
Punjab
India
RCAF
Saskatchewan
No. 5 Air Observer School
R.C.A.F
F. F. A. Steigel
Richmond
Sask
W. H. Flatt
Lemberg
By William Ferguson
NOTRE
Cath
Romne
Brussels
Seine River
By Fred Neker
Fred Hobs
Reg'lar
Gene Byrnes
Haan Apt Luck Pinhead
Tories
VITAL
Mickie
Abs
Kāve
Aya
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